Lab Members: Camille Truong

Camille Truong

Education 

Ph.D. Université de Genève, Switzerland, 2012

M.Sc. Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2003

Research Interests

My research focuses on the diversity, taxonomy and systematics of lichens. I am using the combination of field studies, traditional taxonomical methods (morphology, microscopy, thin layer chromatography) and molecular phylogenetics, to understand the morphological and genetic delimitation of species.
I am applying these methods to the species of the Peltigera canina complex (Peltigeraceae), to detect potential cryptic speciation, hybridization, and study how the selectivity of the Nostoc photobiont influences the speciation of the fungal species.

Publications

Truong, C., P.K. Divakar, R. Yahr, A. Crespo & P. Clerc. Testing the use of ITS rDNA and protein-coding genes in the generic and species delimitation of the lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.

Truong C., J.-M. Rodriguez & P. Clerc. Pendulous Usnea species (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in tropical South America and the Galapagos. The Lichenologist, in press.

Truong C. & P. Clerc. Eumitrioid Usnea species (Parmeliaceae, lichenized Ascomycota) in tropical South America and the Galapagos. The Lichenologist, in press.

Truong C. Les lichens de la ville de Neuchâtel – Inventaire et étude de bio-indication. Mémoires de la Société neuchâteloise des Sciences naturelles, in press.

Truong C. & P. Clerc (2012) The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in the tropical Andes: species with a pigmented C+ yellow medulla. The Lichenologist 44: 1-13.

Clerc, P. & C. Truong (2012). Catalogue des lichens de Suisse. Version 2.0. http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/cataloguelichen

Truong C., F. Bungartz & P. Clerc (2011) The lichen genus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in the tropical Andes and the Galapagos: species with a red-orange cortical or subcortical pigmentation. The Bryologist 114: 477-503.

Rodriguez, J., C. Estrabou, C. Truong & P. Clerc (2011) The saxicolous species of the genus Usneasubgenus Usnea (Parmeliaceae) in Argentina. The Bryologist 114: 504-525.

Lumbsch, H.T. et al. (2011) One hundred new species of lichenized fungi: a signature of undiscovered global diversity. Phytotaxa 18: 1-127.

Rodriguez Saavedra, P., A. Flakus, M. Kukwa, R. Lücking, R.I. Meneses, E. Rivas Plata, D. Stanton, C. Truong & R. Vargas (2010) Preliminary catalogue of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Bolivia. Version 1.1. http://botan.ib-pan.krakow.pl/lichens-bolivia/en,strona,catalogue,5.html

Truong C., Y. Naciri & P. Clerc (2009) Multivariate analyses of anatomical characters confirm the differentiation of two morphological close species, Melanohalea olivacea (L.) O. Blanco et al. and M. septentrionalis (Lynge) O. Blanco et al. The Lichenologist 41: 649-661.

Mermilliod J.-C., C. Truong & M. Vust (2009) Fulgensia australis (Arnold) Poelt, une nouvelle espce de lichen pour la Suisse. Meylania 43: 24-27.

Vust M., C. Truong & J.-C. Mermilliod (2009) Lichens du Vallon de Nant. Biodiversité du Vallon de Nant. Mémoires de la Société vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 23: 51-74.

Clerc, P. & C. Truong (2008) The non-sorediate and non-isidiate Parmelina species (lichenized ascomycetes, Parmeliaceae) in Switzerland – Parmelina atricha (Nyl.) P. Clerc reinstated in the European lichen flora. Sauteria 15: 175-194.

Clerc, P. & C. Truong (2008) Un projet de Flore numérique des lichens de Suisse (FNLS). Meylania 40: 21-28.

Truong C., A.E. Palmé & F. Felber (2007) Invasion of the mountain birch Betula pubescens subsp. tortuosa above the treeline due to climate change: Genetic and ecological study in Northern Sweden. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 369-80.

Kéry M., J.H. Spillmann, C. Truong & R. Holderegger (2006) How biased are estimates of extinction probability in revisitation studies? Journal of Ecology 94: 980-986.

Truong C., A.E. Palmé, F. Felber & Y. Naciri-Graven (2005) Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in the tetraploid birch Betula pubescens subsp. tortuosa. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 96-98.

Truong C. & P. Clerc (2003). The Parmelia borreri group (lichenized Ascomycetes) in Switzerland. Botanica Helvetica 113: 49-61.